What roll off dumpster service need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Disclosure: we publish Nexa and have not tested Jobber, so this read rests on Jobber's published feature list. Check it against your own jobs. Roll off service has four needs. First, separate haul and dump rates, with included tonnage and overage billed on actual scale weight. Second, disposal-facility weight tickets matched to each job before the invoice goes out. Third, street permit numbers, expiry dates and renewals per placement (Long Branch, NJ, allows 14 days plus a free 14-day renewal). Fourth, driver start and end times that document the 12-hour short-haul window. Jobber's list names none of the first three as features, so we can't say it handles them natively. What it does list is what a truck operation uses daily: online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments, a mobile app for field teams, route optimization, a client hub and QuickBooks Online integration. Connect adds time and expense tracking, which helps document driver hours. Grow adds job costing and two-way SMS, and Plus adds crew scheduling.
Nexa does not cover tonnage, weight tickets or permits either. It has invoices and estimates, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, a booking page, jobs with costing and profit per job, crew assignment, time tracking, a payroll CSV of hours x rate, and bookkeeping. It has no route optimization, dispatch board, GPS, text messages, or QuickBooks and Xero sync. For sequencing trucks it only sends the day's stops to Google Maps in time order. A client record has no street-address field, which matters when every job is a drop location. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years, Jobber at $49 a month is $588 a year, or $1,764. Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. The gap is real, but it buys you less dispatch and field tooling, and Nexa adds nothing on the four roll off needs. If you run Jobber, stay and work around the gaps. Quote the haul rate and the dump rate as separate line items. Put included tonnage and the permit number and expiry in the job notes. Hold the invoice until the facility's weight ticket arrives, then add the overage line from the actual weight. Test this on three real jobs in Jobber's 14-day trial (full Grow access, no credit card). If you bill by the ton daily and that workaround is too slow, the better fit is a waste-hauling dispatch and billing system built around scale tickets, overage, permits and driver hours. Ask that vendor to run the same three jobs.
Our read for roll off dumpster service: Keep Jobber: it covers dispatch, routing and field work that Nexa lacks, and neither tool tracks tonnage, weight tickets or permits natively.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs roll off dumpster service $588/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 5.7 months it has cost less than Jobber, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Jobber bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for roll off dumpster service: Stay with Jobber if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $1,764 for Jobber over three years.
Time tracking, invoicing, job tracking and the books are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Jobber solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $49/month — $588 a year, from Jobber's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $1,485 less.
If Jobber raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Jobber | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $49/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,764 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Jobber come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Jobber lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Jobber's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Jobber is the better call if you need built for home services specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Jobber is built for home and commercial field service businesses. Its homepage names 12 trades, including cleaning, HVAC, landscaping, plumbing, roofing and tree care, and says it serves service pros in over 50 industries. (getjobber.com)
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do the actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every roll-off dumpster operator: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to the actual work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A lead, a call, a referral — and a quote or estimate that turns it into a booked job.
The part you actually get paid for — with the time, materials, add-ons, and tasks tracked as you go, not guessed at later.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on the actual work. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
Jobber plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Roll-Off Dumpster Operator earns $55,000/year. At $588/year, Jobber is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for roll off dumpster service. You own it like you own your Roll-off truck with cable or hook hoist.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small roll off dumpster service business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling past a handful of crews, a fleet platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
Year-round construction in SoCal. Fire season (June-November) drives restoration demand. Drought impacts landscaping. Earthquake retrofitting is ongoing market.
Extreme summer heat drives HVAC demand. Hurricane risk on Gulf Coast. Year-round construction. Rapid population growth in DFW, Austin, Houston, San Antonio creates sustained demand. Freeze events (like 2021) create emergency plumbing/HVAC surge.
Hurricane season June-November creates massive restoration demand. Snowbird season November-March boosts service volume 30-40%. Year-round construction. Pool service is year-round industry. Pest control peaks in summer humidity.
Harsh winters in upstate, moderate in NYC. Construction limited in winter upstate. NYC market is enormous but hypercompetitive. Brownstone/pre-war building maintenance is specialized trade. NYC licensing is notoriously complex.
Time tracking, invoicing, job tracking and the books are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. The sections below price both routes honestly.
My business is a fleet of steel boxes and a truck that can only carry one at a time, so the entire day is a swap-and-haul puzzle: drop an empty 20-yard at a roofing job, haul a full one to the landfill, come back with the empty, and slot the next delivery in between. The math that makes or breaks me is weight, because the landfill charges by the ton and a box full of shingles or busted concrete weighs three times what a garage cleanout does, so my flat quote needs a tonnage cap or I'm eating the overage. Every trip to the landfill comes back with a scale ticket, and that ticket has to land on the right customer or my billing falls apart and I can't tell clean concrete loads from mixed waste for the recycler. Placement is its own headache: a customer wants the can in front of the garage but there's a low wire, or it's an HOA that fines for street placement, or a tight driveway where I'll crack the concrete without plywood down. The slow killer is rental time, because a 30-yard sitting full at a customer's house for an extra two weeks is a container I can't rent to someone else. I run the route off the radio, chase the empties, and watch the clock on every can in the field.
Real roll off dumpster service near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a roll-off dumpster operator? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every roll-off dumpster operator on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $102,360–$379,800 on tools that last for years, and never thought twice. So why should the software cost more than your whole kit — every single year? Hold it to the same standard as a good tool: $279, once.
We build a roll-off dumpster operator's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a roll-off dumpster operator — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.
For solo roll off dumpster service and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Jobber may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Jobber has features like Built for home services and Mobile app for field teams that some businesses rely on. For most solo roll off dumpster service, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $49/month, Nexa pays for itself in 5.7 months. After that: $588 saved every year.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
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